The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09
Plain Living.

Rev. A. ID, Mayo last SaDDath opeheu
his series of Sunday evening talks on
..Some things the American People Elk
meet of Young Folks" With less mon
az in hand. said the speaker, than the
better class of Southern negroes To-Day
the New England settlers in their frst
fifty wears laid the foundations oil the
HIGHER civilization. Their method OF
saving from the lower to build up the
HIGHER side of life is the true ideal OF
economy for n people A great deal OF
rubbish is talked to young people about
the plain living of our fathers. The
children of our foreign born people,
the intelligent young negroes, and null
titudes of hopeful young folks. under
stand what that sort OF plain living
means, and propose to improve upon
the crude home list OF the past "A
famous Confederate General was placed
at the head of an important co-educa-
tional college after the war. lie INSIST
ed that the girls should dress in calico
and coarse stuff, and wear sun bonnets.
The result was complete victory for
the Girl brigade, and the "uncondltlon-
al surrender" of the general, ana the
disappearance of the old-time South
ern head gear from the college campus
What the American people mean by
plain living is saving from the lower
side of life, in days of poverty, for the
bioher side. and, in wealth. directing
the material outlay by character, intel
ligence, refinement and general'sense
of fitness of things. 1t is shown that
the yearly earnings of the American
people fix the limit of average family
living ut $500 or less YEAR The CEN
trail question of American society Is:
How can the average American family
keep ND true home on this sum!
That life includes health, intelligence,
morality and all the elegance and OPP
portunty that good family can get
GU. of a moderate sum. 1t Is matter
of domestic education. equality impor-
tant and more fundamental than the
training of the schools, and which the
schools, at best, can very imperfectiy
supply. 1t means that every American
child should be taught that money al
WAYS represents work by somebody,
. and how to use il on both sides of life,
as well as to get it.
Every American girl should be
taught the art of home making: not the
old housekeeping of the peasant, the
slave. or the ignorant class, which Is
eternal drudgery but the new house
keeping, which puts superior wom-
anhood into the hands and uses labor
saving machinery, brains, chatacter
and culture to get the most out OF the
dollar 1t needs more ability now to
handle first-cass house than to be
principal of a female seminary IN the
old time. We met n young lady. out
of the upper stratum OF New YORK
society. who had come to Western
agricultural college to study sclentlhc
housekeeping because she had engaged
TO be married to rich man and was
resolved to fill her position with credit
The experts say that good cooking will
save half the material and greatly I'M
prove food. The American people
waste more in slovenly and extravaganza
housekeeping than any other nation,
and in the long run inilict a damage
on the country which may be classed
with that caused by the use of strong
drink.
Every young man should insist on
health, and Responsibility in his living
and then save for home. The Young
man perverts the opportunities offered
by organizations of an educational and
social character when he uses theiI
headquarters as mere clubs putting of
marriage. The young husband and
wife should not flop" into boarding
house, but put head, heart and hands
together to build up the true home
ONLY an educated woman--a woman
with good heart, a level head and
skilled hands-can make a house on
small means. She can do it by stir
ring in Judgment" setting the table
Alright and steering the boys and girls.
The American civilization that is com
ing will be the most expensive thing on
earth except barbarism. 1t can only b'
maintained by that style of plain living
which in every region subordinates thu
material to the spiritual. and by wis'
economies saves from the lower Il
spend on the higher side n the nationa
life. PHILADELPHIA Call.
Jenny Lind at Home.